Administrative Assistant salary in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area

Pay in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area against Ohio and the US

Administrative assistants at the 90th percentile earn $62,060, 2.0 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 2.0. The middle half of administrative assistants in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area earns $36,730–$49,330. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $12,600 wide, against $15,540 across Ohio and $19,170 nationally: employers in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for an administrative assistant here

An offer at the 75th percentile instead of the median adds $5,920 a year in pay and about $7,639 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $6,680 in pay. These percentiles describe what people in the job earn locally, not experience levels, so place your offer by the tasks and seniority you need.

For scale, the US median of $47,540 falls between the median and the 75th percentile in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area, and the Ohio statewide median of $46,230 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area

Pay is only part of it. Benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², which adds about $12,603 to the $43,410 median and brings it to $56,013 a year. Recruiting, equipment and office space come on top. Benefit levels vary by employer, so treat this as an estimate.

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Other roles in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area, this one ranks #12 by median pay, between HR assistants ($47,200) and e-commerce order specialists ($42,630). Project Coordinator is the highest at $82,950.

Measured against the US median, administrative assistants rank #7 of the 17 roles we track in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area (-8.7%), between customer support specialists (-8.4%) and accountants (-8.7%). The typical role here is at -10.8%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Administrative assistants hold 15.1% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area, 10.7% across Ohio and 10.8% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Ohio

Across the 16 areas of Ohio with data for this job, the median runs from $41,580 in Youngstown-Warren to $47,870 in Columbus, a gap of $6,290 a year. Of the 11 areas in Ohio with more administrative assistants than the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area, 2 pay less: the North Northeastern Ohio nonmetro area ($42,580) and Youngstown-Warren, OH ($41,580).

the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area is #215 of 520 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Ohio, Gettysburg and Williamsport pay just above the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area and Great Falls and Beaumont-Port Arthur just below. All four are within $100 a year of the median in the Eastern Ohio nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many administrative assistants, one pays more.

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